Learn it, Live it, Love it!

You know just because something is in the Bible and you believe it, doesn't mean you really know what it means or have necessarily learned it. Sometimes it takes experience; sometimes it simply takes time to sink in.

Take love for example:
1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. 

Love is patient: it doesn't force something that isn't there. It develops at the correct moment to be the driving force it waits, even in tough times or difficult situations that are outside of our scope of understanding. 

Love is kind. It doesn't mean it won't poke fun, but it'll never cross the line. 

Love isn't envious of what others have (in a relationship, business, etc...).

Love doesn't boast (before others or in a room all by itself) of what it has, and it definitely doesn't boast of what it may one day have

Love is not proud. There's nothing wrong with being proud of something, but love isn't proud to the point of thinking that what it has could never be lost.

Love isn't rude. It's honest without the rudeness. It gets the point across without being rude.

Love isn't self-seeking. It's not about what you can get out of it. Love isn't about you.

Love isn't easily angered. That doesn't mean that it never gets angry. it just takes a lot to anger it. It maybe disappointed, but there is a thick line between disappointment and anger.

Love doesn't keep a record of wrongs. So even if love does get angry (and according to the previous statement, it took a lot), it forgives and forgets. It doesn't keep a tally of how many times it has been wronged. 

Love doesn't delight in evil but rejoices in the truth. Evil brings pain to love while truth rejuvenates it.

Love always protects. it always has protection on the forefront of it's mind, in every circumstance, like an instinct. It makes sure to provide and meet needs.

Love always trusts. Trust is the foundation of love. If there is no trust, there is no relationship (in any form).

Love perseveres. No matter the circumstance, situation, huge life change, or small life change, love out lasts them all.

Love never fails, period.

No where does it say love is easy, or comfortable, and it surely doesn't say that love is easy to find (especially in this day and age).

Regardless, love never fails.

Some may say, "Oh you must have really loved them/that."
But I would say no. that isn't the case at all because love (to me) isn't past tense. Love is present: love is the decision that I will make in the future. I love now, and I will love.

"United in Love"

  

What You Need

Have you ever heard that Jesus is the answer to every question? I've heard it, and obviously one could ask a question that has nothing to do with Jesus, but in reality, Jesus is the answer to every question. He's everything we need; he's simply, the answer. Before I get too deep on myself let me explain.

Woman at the well needed water; she received living water straight from the Source. but he's not just water. Sometimes people are hungry and not thirsty. For those, He is the Bread of Life.

We all walk in a world full of darkness, but some indulge in that darkness and fall into the traps of the dark; Jesus is the Light of the World and can put those traps into the light so that they can be avoided.

People travel but don't get anywhere because they are lost and don't even know it, living a lie that they believe is truth, living a life that's leading them only to death.  For those (and all of us) He is the way, the truth, and the life.

People are different. Some react to more of a dictator quality in a person better than a gentle command. Jesus is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, He is the Lamb of God.

He doesn't have a split personality. He's not bread for someone who needs water. He's not a Lion for someone who needs a Lamb.

This isn't a "Jesus is only what you need and nothing else" gospel.
This is a "Jesus is exactly what you need" gospel.